ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 199326
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| Date: | Tuesday 28 August 1934 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  deHavilland DH.80 Puss Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Herts & Essex Aero Club Ltd |
| Registration: | G-AAVA |
| MSN: | 2002 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Nazeing Road, Broxbourne, Essex -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Broxbourne Aerodrome, Nazeing, Essex |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The "Daily Mirror" issue dated August 29, 1934 carried the illustrated story of an air crash where an aircraft had ended up in the back garden of a house in Nazeing Road, Broxbourne after a failed take off and consequent collision with a telegraph pole.
The owner of the aircraft, E W Cox of Forest View Road, Walthamstow, had been piloting himself and two passengers from Broxbourne airfield, but failed to gain height, hit the pole and slewed around into the garden.
The story failed to identify the aircraft involved other than that it was an aircraft owned by the pilot and kept by the Herts & Essex aero club at nearby Broxbourne, but the accompanying illustration clearly showed the crumpled mass of a high wing or bi-plane to possess a registration which appeared to be G-A?VA, suggesting that it was one of two de Havilland types registered G-AAVA or G-ABVA. The former was a three seat DH.80A Puss Moth, is more likely than the latter, a two seat DH.60G Gipsy Moth to have been the aircraft involved. In addition, DH.60G Gipsy Moth G-ABVA can be ruled out, as the registration was cancelled 31.3.32 when it was sold to France, and re-registered as F-ALVV.
As for DH.80 Puss Moth G-AAVA, it lived on for several more years: Registered [C of R 5675] 8.3.35 to Brooklands Aviation Ltd, Brooklands [presumably for repairs/rebuild]. Re-registered [C of R 6046] 6.7.35 to Kenneth J Nalson, Croydon. Registered [C of R 6606] 18.12.35 to Thomas W Brooke-Smith, Brooklands. Registered [C of R 7235] 5.8.36 to Harold L Harrison, Croydon (and used by Croydon Airways between February and March 1937). C of A lapsed 26.8.37, and not renewed until 27.5.38. Registration cancelled 6.38 as sold.
Re-registered in Netherlands as PH-ATI [C of R 322] 31.5.38 to DH Reinders, Wassenaar [based Ypenburg]. Destroyed 10. 5.40 during invasion of Holland; registration cancelled as "lapsed" 9.11.40.
Sources:
1. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AAVA
2. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh80.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A1.html
4. https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/airwar-encyclopedia/aircraft-types/dehavilland-dh-80-puss-moth/ [Dutch text]
5. http://www.brynelliott.co.uk/WESTESSEXcrashesMishaps2Peacetime.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 May 1940 | PH-ATI | D. H. Reinders | 0 | Ypenburg AFB, Zuid-Holland |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Sep-2017 19:18 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 01-Sep-2017 19:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
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